ColorHits
Creative
music color search
SHOW HN2013
How HN took it
8 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.61.
Design: 4 for, 0 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun, simple, well implemented
From 4 comments
It makes me happy when this sort of fun, simple app gets voted up to the front page of HN. It reminds me that my apps don't need to do a million different things but that only a…
tehaaron on HNVery cool toy/tool, good implementation too
c54 on HNThis is great.
jfb on HNvery cool could you up the amount of albums that show up per page? or have an endless page option?
carpe171 on HN
Interesting color-based album discovery
From 2 comments
Fantastic job. The darkest of albums. http://colorhits.com/album/407270/This+Is+Spinal+Tap
duggieawesome on HNThis thing is just begging for a rainbow where you hover over various points of the rainbow and it pops up with a relevant album. If you want to take this one step further, I'd…
jmduke on HN
Objections
Searching by remembered cover colors gave poor results
From 1 comment
it's very good fun, but I think it needs some tweaking. I tried finding albums by the colours I remember of their covers and failed miserably. So then tried checking the album…
aardvark179 on HN
Requests
Endless scrolling or more albums per page
From 2 comments
very cool could you up the amount of albums that show up per page? or have an endless page option?
carpe171 on HNDefinitely, endless scrolling will probably be added in an upcoming release.
mbarrett on HN
Rainbow hover UI to pick albums
From 1 comment
This thing is just begging for a rainbow where you hover over various points of the rainbow and it pops up with a relevant album. If you want to take this one step further, I'd…
jmduke on HN
Chrome extension matching page colors to albums
From 1 comment
This thing is just begging for a rainbow where you hover over various points of the rainbow and it pops up with a relevant album. If you want to take this one step further, I'd…
jmduke on HN
Questions
Which algorithm or library extracts album colors
From 1 comment
Great work. I'm working on palette determination on a project, so I'm curious- which algorithm/library did you use to parse the album covers?
rsgong on HN
How the color search is implemented
From 1 comment
Very cool! :-) I built a similar search by color tool at 99designs and wrote a bit about how it works here: http://99designs.com/tech-blog/blog/2012/08/02/color-explorer/ TL;DR…
dhotson on HN
Alternatives named
99designs color explorer using R-trees
From 1 comment
Very cool! :-) I built a similar search by color tool at 99designs and wrote a bit about how it works here: http://99designs.com/tech-blog/blog/2012/08/02/color-explorer/ TL;DR…
dhotson on HN
TinEye Multicolr Flickr color search
From 1 comment
Very cool tool! reminds me of this flickr color search http://labs.tineye.com/multicolr/#colors=e73843,6abbd3,e84b6e;weights=33,34,33;
lalos on HN